MAN offers a nice post citing the recent national prominence of Nicholas Nixon's The Brown Sisters. I was fortunate to see this series at Western Bridge over the summer. I found it to be thoughtful, compelling and, well, moving. The series consists (thus far) of 30 annual photographs of Nixon's wife and her three sisters. The women are always posed in the same arrangement. What I found most captivating was how they aged inconsistently, some years looking younger than the previous year. Equally fascinating were the shifting interpersonal dynamics read through body language. One can't help but be impressed, too, with the Nixon's conceptual foresight and execution. With a strong line up of exhibitions and some noteable sales, MAN asks astutely, what makes this work particularly meaningful now?

He was a great teacher. His other subjects, people with AIDS (at the emerging height of the epedemic circa mid 1980s) and blind people, as well as couples and family have consistently touched on the edginess of intimacy.